Rooney has endured a difficult week after his red card playing for Manchester United in their Champions League draw at Villarreal last Wednesday.
She unknowingly wound up on a date with a Magic: The Gathering card-playing champion.
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Here's hoping one of the companies can take cell-phone gaming beyond "Tetris" clones and solitaire card-playing.
For instance, VinaGame says it became cash-flow-positive by early 2006 largely by relying on a prepaid card for playing games at Internet cafes.
The story of the round, though, was high school student Manassero, who has yet to earn his European playing card for 2011.
Turned playing card company Nintendo into world's most successful videogame console maker.
Apollo Robbins, a performer and expert in deception, takes advantage of that fact when playing card tricks and engaging in other trickery on the show.
Manassero's 69 kept alive his hopes of a top-five finish, which would ensure he becomes the youngest player to secure his playing card on the European Tour.
His official Upper Deck playing card resembled Jordan.
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The lie which those subjects are asked to tell is a small one: they have to persuade Dr Langleben, or one of his assistants, that they are holding a particular playing card when often they are actually holding a different one.
Yamauchi had transformed Kyoto-headquartered Nintendo from the obscure playing-card company he inherited from his grandfather into a leading global maker of game consoles.
As these two preview cards adequately display, playing both card effects (left to right) provides a substantial boon for players that can use both pieces.
The name originally stood for Magic: The Gathering Exchange, an online site designed to trade cards used in playing the card game popular with the younger set.
"We are launching the SanDisk Rock Band 2 SD card to enhance the playing experience on the Wii, " said Christopher Moore, director of product marketing, consumer products division, SanDisk.
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Yamauchi, who ran Nintendo for 55 years before stepping down last year because of ill health, never shut down the playing-card business, even as he dragged the company into consumer electronics.
That won't stop the DUP playing that card closer between now and polling day, but it sits uncomfortably alongside the clear image of them, Sinn Fein and Alliance as the "team players" (to borrow Martin McGuinness's phrase) ranged against the UUP and SDLP "internal opposition".
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In the popular US gambling destination of Atlantic City, New Jersey state law prevents casinos from barring card counters, while in the state of Nevada, home to the quintessential gaming city Las Vegas, no such law exists, so they can ask card counters to stop playing, or in extreme cases, ban them.
Since the wild card was instituted in 1995, the Yanks have lost all three ALDS series playing as a wild card.
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We spent the first two nights without power in NYC, playing Monopoly and card games.
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Playing the medical card did not work for inside-trader king pin, Raj Rajaratnam either.
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And Julie Heckman, executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association, is playing a patriotic card.
At the beginning of the war last year, Mr Kabila did well from playing the nationalist card.
Over the past few days, there had been a lot of mentions of the race card, but who is playing it?
"There was too much work to be done, and playing the Mommy card was bad form, " Ms. Keaney says.
The moral overview does shape everything, and the Democrats are playing the altruism card for all they are worth.
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One thing is certain: The big chains are gunning for the toy business this season by unabashedly playing the price card.
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Mr Erdogan's secular critics echo Mr Assad's claims that he is playing a sectarian card by propping up Islamists across the Middle East.
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Outspent 15-to-1 in the recent Iowa and New Hampshire campaigns by the centimillionaire Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee can't be blamed for playing the populist card.
Mr Renzi's biggest mistake was to think he could simply stroll into power by playing the age card, says Massimo Franco of Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
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